THE RIVAL PRINCES.

—the mockery of charity and purity, which characterises Mrs. Clarke and her associates:

"Amidst the great variety of perfections that eulivened the wreaths that Dodd had so liberally entwined round the brow of his royal master, PHILANTHROPY was not the least conspicuous, of which he so often spoke in terms of the highest eulogium, that Miss Taylor began to entertain suspicions of the verity of his praise; which induced us to hit upon an expedient, that would at once bring the Duke of Kent's benevolence to the test.

held up to ridicule.-The sum of his of fence, however, appears to be that he meddled in a business which did not belong to him, and it certainly would have been wiser of him to have let it alone. She accuses him, however, of making love to her, and gives his letter.-He certainly seems to have made love to her Book, and as this was all in the way of business, we certainly see no harm of it.

"Earl Moira, who has long been distinguished for all the great qualities that can dig rify the head and heart of mau, felt anxious "In a disguised hand, and under a feigned that tho e letters should not meet the public

name, she wrote a most excellent letter to the Duke of Kent, in which she solicited TEN

POUNDS, and described the misery of herself and aged sister, in such an eloquent strain of piteous narrative, that it would have touched the chord of sensibility in the heart of a stone; but had not (as was suspected) any effect upon Major Dodd's philanthropic and benevolent P▲

TRON.

"Though Miss Taylor's letter did not produce one guinea to the supposed distressed females, it afforded a great deal of private mirth to us, and obtained from Major Dodd, Colo ael Wardle, and Mr. Glennie, repeated as surances of the Duke's attention to the mendicant's application, who felt for the distresses of the unfortunate, and had sent the poor aged

woman TEN POUNDS."

eye, which were written in confidence, and perhaps at moisents when the mind is not armed

with prudence and philosophy. His Lordship therefore expressed a wish to be able to restore them to the hands of the writer-and, if possible to heal the wound which the Wardle Party were endeavouring to keep open between me and my late Royal friend. Accordingly a gentleman some time known to Earl Moira, undertook to find out the best channel by which he could bring about the object of his Lordship's friendly disposition; and believing that Sir R. Phillips (from the private report of the moment) had purchased my book, and, for political reasons, got Mr. Gillet to become the publisher of it—he waited on the Knight, and cautiously led him to the subject of myself

and the Memoirs.

"Sir Richard felt pleased at the introduction of a topic which afforded an opportuity to talk of himself; he therefore joyfully entered

Every one is indiscriminately attacked, and every one without any other apparent reason, than that it is necessary to fill up a Volume of Scandal, with a total indif-upon a history of me and my book, and though ference as to truth or falsehood. It is really inconceivable how this woman could be so filled with malice-She is as mischievous and profligate in her levity as in her de sign.

Her sport is the sport of a foul spirit; it is the playfulness of a malignant being. She seems to have no pleasure but where she is giving pain.

he did not say it was his property, he insinuated that he had an influence over me and the management of the publication. His visitor was therefore induced to believe, that he had come to the proper person, with whom he might fairly go a little further into the subject, and he ac cordingly asked the Knight, whether there was any probability of suppressing the work, if he carried into effect all the Duke's promises, besides advancing some ready money for my immediate exigencies. Sir Richard, after pausing a few minutes, said, he did not doubt but I should be satisfied with my an

Sir Richard Phillips seems to have very foolishly attempted to do her a service, and whatever may have been said against him, no one has imputed to him any want of this good nature. In this instance, however,nuity of four hundred a year, and about tw● he pays for it. This truly abandoned woman does not allow any one to approach, even though with the purpose of serving her, without making them the object of her malice-Sir R. Philips is accordingly

+ Miss Taylor is a very accomplished scholar.

or three thousand pounds to liquidate a variety of demands that might, under such circumstances, be made on me.

"It may here be necessary to shew, from the subsequent conduct of the Knight, that in consequence of this application, he instantly became alive to a new interest. He calculated upon the probability of my withdrawing my

agreed to close at the payment. (I believe) of four thousand pounds and the annuity, which, as the negociator could not make better terms, he agreed to give, when the Kuight made him

publication, which, if done through his influence and exertions, he might accomplish the possession of an additional honour, or some advantage, which Colonel Wardle could not be stow on him, and in a few hours after his let-commit the same to paper, in order to assure ter to me, he became impressed with very me of what he had accomplished for my wek loyal sentiments, as will be presently seen by fare. his other affectionate epistles to the woman whom he has since endeavoured to swear into a pillory!!!

"Having shewn how soon this patriotic hookseller could turn his coat, I shall proceed with my narrative:

"They now agreed to meet on the next forenoon, at a Bookseller's in Bond-street, in order that Sir Richard should introduce him to me, but as I have been informed, the Knight did not keep his appointment, but went to Eark Moira, to get the business entirely into his own hands-The gentleman's patience heing ex

"After a conversation of some length upon my affairs, the gentleman agreed (under an im-hausted, he left Bond-street, and going topression, that the Knight had power over my work, as he had professed) to give to me the above sum and secure the annuity, as had been before promised, when after an appointment to meet in the evening, he left him, in order to communicate to Earl Moira the result of his visit to Bridge-street.

"Sir Richard anxious to learn from whom

his visitor came, dispatched one of his servants, as he afterwards told me, for that purpose, by which means he soon learnt that Earl Moira had handsomely interested himself, to prevent the publication of the Duke's letters. Sir Richard now thought that he should carry every thing before him, and that he should be able, by the suavity of his manners;-the grace and irresistible powers of his address-and his method of conciliating an angry female, from his great knowledge of the human character, to carry his point with mine, and thereby become something between a Baronet and a Chancellor of the Exchequer!-He accordingly wrote to the Noble Earl, professing his influence over me, and tendering his good offices in the affair.

"Not having received au immediate answer to his letter I understood he followed it by one or two more upon the subject, which Earl Moira thinking, I suppose, not a proper one for an epistolatory correspondence, did not an

swer.

wards St. James's-Place, he met Phillips coming out of Earl Moira's house, boasting that he was allowed to enlarge the sum, and accordingly they immediately drove to Westbourne-Place, when Sir Richard requested his companion to allow him a few minutes private conversation with me.-After Sir Richard had been with me about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, I felt anxious to see the ostensible negociator, and he immediately came up, and when the bu siness was canvassed, he found that Sir Richard had neither a property nor any kind of influence overthe management of the Work. Thinking at this time that Wardle and his party would do all they had promised, and stimulated by one or the other of them to publish my book, I treated the overtures now made to me with ne

glect, and observed in very strong terms to my visitors, that I should derive more advantage from PUBLISHING, than they offered for sup pressing the work, which declaration will account for a very extraordinary letter I am about to introduce to the notice of the reader, which Sir Richard sent to me on the same evening, and in which he calls his friend Wardle, a Traitor!!!

"Sir Ricbard finding that no business was to be done, and his companion surprised that he had been deceived with respect to his professed influence at Westbourne-place, they left me, and as the Knight went down stairs first, his friend asked permission to see me in the «When the same gentleman called in the evening, which, as I gave my assent to, he evening, Sir Richard was gone to his brocame alone, when he apologised for the language ther-in-law, in St. Paul's Church-yard, whiof Sir Richard, and commenced a negociation, ther he followed him, and as the Knight did with which Sir Richard had nothing further to not like to act, without the opinion of his relado, and which he in the course of ten days tion, the negociator was obliged to submit, against his inclination, to the introduction of a third person. Sir Richard then took upon himself to arrange the business, with as much séri. ousness us if he had really possessed a property in the book, or an influence over me, neither of which was the case, and o'jected to the sum of money settled upon in the morning, but

completed to the satisfaction I believe of all parties, and then turned the agreement over to the professional gentlemen appointed to carry› it into legal effect.

"In order that nothing should intervenc and embarrass the negociation, we agreed, that if Sir Richard forced himself upon me the next day, or at any time, all that might be said

should go for nothing-so determined was I[] plishing the object of his visit to me, he made not to commit may affairs with a person whose up his mind to go with his companion to Earl vanity induced him to publish every thing that|| Moira, and resign the business of his embassy, had been entrusted to him, either in his into which he had forced himself, for his own counting-house or the public prints. private views. This circumstance is confirmed by the last paragraph of his third letter, which I am about to present to the notice of my reader.

THE POWER OF FAITH.
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AFTER three weeks which passed but too ¦¦ of divine worship, and had often ridiculed effects which his reason could not compre swiftly away, the party at length reached the uncommon awe hend. Now, however, au peaceful valley where Oswald resided. It was with very different feelings that they beheld it for the first time from an eminence on the road.

Wallen leaned out of the coach, and with curiosity and delight surveyed the enchanting country. When he drew back his head, he observed that the hands of the father and daughter were locked in each other, and that their tears flowed abundantly. Neither of them spoke, and it was only by a pressure of the hand that they communicated to one another their renewed sorrow for the loss which they had sustained. But their grief barst forth with still greater violence, when they entered their desolate habitation, and every apartment and every object forcibly reminded them of the companion whom they had left behind. Wallen respecting their just

sorrows,

relieved them in these first moments from the presence of a stranger. He rambled for some hours through the beautiful valley, intersected by a deep stream which discharged itself into a picturesque lake, and those banks ⠀ were adorned with vineyards. On his return, he found the old man, whose countenance beamed with mild serenity, surrounded by his parishioners who thronged to see him. Each of them saluted their pastor, after his long absence, with a familiar shake of the hand, lamented their common loss with affecting sincerity, and related what had happened in the valley since his departure. Oswald listened to each with kind attention, though || sometimes the most trivial domestic matters were the subject of the narrative.

Wilhelmina was chiefly occupied with a neighbour's child, a little girl who had been brought up by her mother. She wanted to accustom the little creature to her, resolving to supply the place of her lost benefactress.

In the midst of this joyous scene, the sound of a bell was heard. "Come children," said "the bell sumone of the oldest peasants, mous us to church: to-day our pastor is too much fatigued, and once more instead of his powerful words, you must hear me read a Psalm.""No," cried Oswald; "I will go with you. I will thank God for having brought || me back to my children, and at the same time pay one more tribute to the memory of the deceased."

They all went. Wallen followed uninvited. For many years he had not entered any place

came over him when he entered the simply decorated temple, at the extremity of which a curtain concealed a small organ from the view. Wilhelmina disappeared behind it.

"My daughter is our organist," said the old man to Wallen, as he passed him: “ but you must not expect too much, for she had no teacher except her mother." At this moment Wilhelmina began a doleful voluntary, and as the notes gradually died away, the whole congregation suddenly commenced a hymn, expressive of the happiness of the departed and the joys of immortality. Wailen was powerfully moved; he called his reason, but in vain, to account for his feelings. Wilhelmina, who from her inmost soul accompanied the congregation with energy and firmness, attracted his ear and his heart behind the white curtain. The singing being ended the tones grew softer and softer, and when they at length expired, she was heard to sob. Her fie began with a father then rose to pray. pallid countenance and tremulous voice; his first words were scarcely intelligible; tears glistened in his grey eye-lashes, and almost drowned his voice. But he soon recovered his fortitude and triumphed over his sorrows. His views extended beyond the grave; his spirit was elevated to the hopes of a better world; his voice by degrees acquired firmness and his eyes their lustre, and be cluded in the words of Klopstock, to this ef fect:-" After a short repose, my dust, thou shalt arise, and he by whom you was created will give thee immortal life. Hallelujah!"He stood with his head erect, displaying in his features all the animation of youth, Wallen quitted the place with extraordinary emotion. His heart, in contradiction to his head, was vo full that, for the first time, he conversed in the evening with the old man, on the subject of religion and faith; and communicated bis sentiments and doubts without reserve. Oswald had never sought an opportunity for such a conversation, and this time it did not seem to be wished for by him.

con.

"There are persons," said he to the philosopher," who have no sense for music, whò cannot conceive how harmony operates upon the soul: they nevertheless presume not to deny such effects, because they daily observe them in thousands. May not mankind be in a similar predicament in regard to faith? No

more than I despise the man who hath not creased his desire, he seized the pen, wrote music in his soul, no more can I condemu to the father and daughter, expressed his him in whom faith manifests no power. The wish in terms that flowed warm from the only sentiment I can feel for him is pity, be-heart, sealed the letters in haste and sent cause he is without that which gives a higher them to the post. The ten days which he was relish to prosperity and alleviates every mis-obliged to wait for an answer, he very gravely fortune." counted every morning when he awoke and every night when he retired to rest; and he who used to calculate the orbits of comets was now every moment mistaken in his reckoning.

Already on the second day he found himself compelled to speak to some human being or other on the subject of his hopes, to prevent his heart from bursting. Mrs. Sugen was the only person he had about him. Her advice he asked, though he had long determined how to proceed. The old woman, delighted with this unusual honour, amply repaid him by her attention and the loquacity with which she signified her perfect approbation, inter

Wallen made no reply; he wished that he possessed a similar conviction, without being able to acquire it. But he felt more and more forcibly every day that a residence among these excellent people, and an union with the fair Wilhelmina would restore the lost felicity of his life. One scruple only prevented the disclosure of these feelings. More mistrustful of his heart than of his head, he was afraid that he was fascinated by the charm of novelty alone, or that sensual desire was contriving to ensnare him. To put, therefore, the strength and duration of his sentiments to the test, he resolved to quit the delicious valley and its lovely inhabitant, without be-mixed with a hundred little observations restraying the secret wishes of his heart; and on his return home, amidst his usual occupations, and in the vicinity of Louisa's grave, his feelings continued the same, if an invincible passion drew him to Wilhelmina, he proposed by letter to solicit her hand, to seli his estate and taking honest Susan along with bim, to settle for life in the peaceful valley.

pecting the sweet young lady; for in dressing and undressing her, she had enjoyed oppor tunities of seeing and hearing many things that could not be indifferent to a lover. These she was daily obliged to repeat; Wallen was never tired of listening to her, and in this manner he beguiled the time during those ten tedious days.

The answer at length arrived. It accorded with his ardent wishes, and in less than two hours he was in his carriage. Mrs. Susan's tears, blessings, and prayers attended him. The reader who has once in his life flown to

that he harried on night and day towards the much-loved mountains, that he was not detained by any bad roads, or swollen rivers. He hoped so soon as the morning of the fourth day to reach the tranquil valley, but an incessant rain had so broken up the roads, that he had great difficulty to get, by means of money, intreaties, and curses, pretty late at night as far as the shore of the well-known lake.

With these intentions he departed, accompanied by the most affecting testimonies of gratitude on the part of the father, and the tears of the daughter. As swiftly as the weeks had flown away during his journey to Switzerland, when seated opposite to Wilhel-meet his distant mistress, needs not be told mina, so slowly did the few days drag on which it took to return home. Here every He thing resumed its former dull course. surveyed with equal disgust, the bit of ground that belonged to him, and the whole firmament which formerly seemed to be in some measure his property. He now left Providence to order matters above and Mrs. Susan below, just as they pleased: and though he still resorted on a clear night to his telescopes, yet his eye no longer carried his fancy along with it into boundless space, for the latter coufined its excursions to a narrow valley of Switzerland. He began to read a hundred books without finishing one. He engaged in every variety of occupation which the fields or the garden afforded, but uone afforded him any pleasure. But he had sufficient command of himself to adhere to his resolution the whole summer, to try whether time would weaken the impression. When, however, he found that autumn with its dark evenings only inNo. VI, Vol. I.—N. §.

He had now, as he thought, triumphed over every obstacle, for the passage along the sands was safe; on the opposite shore stood Oswald's church, and about half a mile from it his peaceful habitation. Wallen strove to muster the last portion of patience which the tedious circuit of the lake required, while his eyes were stedfastly fixed on the spot where he soon expected to receive the most affection ate welcome. A bright light which seemed to approach threw a long trembling ray upon the surface of the lake: sometimes it was inPP